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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]NW DC DCPS are better for PK-5.[/b] Deal and Wilson are trending up as well.

MCPS is trending down and K-8 has been a total mess. Bare minimum PE in the country: 30 mins a week total in ES.

They have cleared 28 kids per K, 1 teacher as well in ES's when it happens, instead of adding another teacher/classroom.

Title 1 doesn't have this issue.

Be ready for very large high schools and middle schools of 400-600 kids per grade, right off the bat in 6th grade. And zero ability tracking or differentiating (deemed racist a few years ago) means a different set of 35 kids each hour. No sense of community. [/quote]
What a joke of a post. [/quote]

[b]NP, this has been discussed on the DC public school board extensively.  When making apples to apples demographic comparisons, DCPS PARCC scores are similar to or exceed nearby MoCo schools in Bethesda.[/b]  In addition, DC schools have smaller class sizes.  For example, my kid had only 16 students in her Deal feeder K class, along with a teacher's aide.

I have a younger kid, but I hear Deal and Wilson are still more of a mixed bag, with Wilson continuing to maintain its reputation as a "Yale or jail" school.  So while middle/high are not seen as comparable quite yet, some kids certainly do well there.  One should have no qualms about DCPS at many schools for elementary (Deal/Hardy feeders, Maury/Brent on the Hill, etc.).[/quote]
Again  this has been refuted many times but delusional DC parents keep repeating that nonsense.:
You cannot compare PARCC scores from MD and DC. They have different tests, different standards.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARCC

[quote]When administering the PARCC assessment, states will be able to tailor the exams to their standards, classes, and other accountability tools that are unique to each state.[/quote] [/quote]

this again look it's this easy

School quality is simply a proxy for the SES levels of the children attending period

The highest incomes areas of DC think NW and capitol Hill have similar "quality" schools as the highest income places in MoCo aka Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac etc same with North Arlington and McLean/Falls Church on out to Langley in Virginia.

and furthermore if you are high SES like almost all of DCUM your kid is going to be fine in school and really coming from a "lesser" high school pyramid actually has better college admission outcomes by being a top student vs one of 50, 75, 100+ at a "top" high school.

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